Contemporary Political Theory

Search Engines and Democracy's Information Dilemma

Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Ghosting and Decency

Katy Wells (Warwick) .

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Politics of Spontaneity

Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers).

Room I4, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Spaces on the Move: Transforming the Politics of Spatial Mobilities in a Changing World

Irit Katz (Cambridge).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

From 'Racial Capitalism' to 'Capitalist Racialization': A Marxist View

Onur Ulas Ince (SOAS).

Webb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 22 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Does the Baker Have a ‘Free Speech’ Case? The Expansion of Speech-as-Conduct and Risks to Free Speech

Katherine Gelber (Queensland).

Webb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 08 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Colonizing Free Will

Bernard Forjwuor (Notre Dame).

Webb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 25 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Food as a Problem for Multicultural Theory and Practice

Daniel Weinstock (McGill).

Webb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 11 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Rescuing Democracy from Oligarchic Capture

Samuel Bagg (South Carolina).

Harrods Room, Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Friday 17 May 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Race, Dissociated Labour, and Social Reproduction in the Shadow of Amazon

Paul Apostolidis (LSE).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 01 March 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Tenure Neutrality and State Neutrality, or Can States Promote Home Ownership?

Katy Wells (Warwick).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 16 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Face/Body Equality: Should We Aspire to It?

Andrew Mason (Warwick).

I.4 Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Uncivil Protest, Civil Participation, and Uncivil Non-Participation in Steve Biko’s Ethics of Just Struggle

Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 19 January 2024, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

A Taxonomy of Injustice

Duncan Ivison (University of Sydney).

Bawden Room, Jesus College.

Friday 17 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Freedom, Spontaneity, and the Value of our Encounters

Emily McTernan (UCL).

Webb Library, Jesus College.

Friday 03 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Futures of Critique in International Political Theory

Kimberley Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London).

Webb Library, Jesus College.

Friday 20 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Protective Falsehoods

Maxime Lepoutre (University of Reading).

Webb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 06 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Empire of Women: Rousseau on Domination and Sexuality

Lori Watson (Washington, St. Louis).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 03 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

We Are As Gods: Eschatological Ambiguity and the Politics of Apocalyptic AI

Elke Schwarz (Queen Mary).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 17 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Reparations Unbound: Dismantling Systemic Racial Injustice in the 21st Century

Lawrie Balfour (Virginia).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 03 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Politics of Architecture: Designing a More Hospitable Welfare State

Bernardo Zacka (MIT).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Decolonizing Cultural Globalization: Césaire and the Hierarchy of Creator and Consumer

Shuk Ying Chan (University of Oxford & UCL).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College..

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Is Drag Morally Objectionable?

Simon Kirchin (University of Kent).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College..

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Democratic Futures: Towards a Critical Political Theory of Finance

Steven Klein (King’s College London).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College..

Friday 21 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Commemorating the Dead

Zofia Stemplowska (University of Oxford).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College..

Friday 07 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Should we have kids in the climate emergency?

Elizabeth Cripps (Edinburgh).

Brewery Room, Jesus College..

Friday 04 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Doubt as a Political Virtue

Quassim Cassam (Warwick).

Brewery Room, Jesus College..

Friday 18 February 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

TBC

Gulzaar Barn (Utrecht).

Brewery Room, Jesus College..

Friday 04 February 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Anger and Remorse

Adam Etison (St. Andrews).

Brewery Room, Jesus College..

Friday 21 January 2022, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

A Reductionist Account of Relationship Duties

Adam Swift (UCL).

Brewery Room, Jesus College..

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery

Helen McCabe (Nottingham).

Brewery Room, Jesus College..

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Audre Lorde on Care

Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State).

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Normative Powers

Laura Valentini (KCL).

Zoom.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bell’s Philosophy of Racial Realism as the Basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment

Tommy Curry (Edinburgh).

Zoom.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account

Udit Bhatia (Oxford).

Zoom.

Friday 22 January 2021, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction

Melvin Rogers (Brown).

Zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory

Vanessa Wills (George Washington).

Zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem

Annette Zimmermann (York).

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Fabulation and the Right to the City: The Bacchae with Saidiya Hartman and Hannah Arendt

Bonnie Honig (Brown).

Zoom.

Friday 09 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

"We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory

Jeanne Morefield (Birmingham).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Grudge Informers Revisited: On Accountability for Collaborators with Repressive Regimes

Colleen Murphy (Illinois).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Responsibility

Jude Browne (Cambridge).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Grounds of Political Legitimacy

Fabienne Peter (Warwick).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Conceptual Change and Political Judgment: A Wittgensteinian Approach

Desiree Weber (College of Wooster).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Justification and Vindication in Political Philosophy

David Owen (Southampton).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Radical Reparations

Daniel Butt (Oxford).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy

Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Left Critiques of Equality

Anne Phillips (LSE).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Hannah Arendt in Baddawi: Political Identity without Sovereignty in Refugee History

Lyndsey Stonebridge (Birmingham).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Emancipation for the Unjust Past

Alasia Nuti (York).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Logic of Legitimacy

Amanda Greene (UCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Compatibility of Constitutional Democracy with International Law

Carmen Pavel (KCL).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Theory for the Real World

Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh).

Room 138, Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 12:30-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope

Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Disturbing the "One Size Fits All' Feudal Approach to Data Governance: Bottom-up Data Trusts

Sylvie Delacroix (Birmingham).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 26 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

A Just Theory of Riots

Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 12 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Environmental Domination and the Politics of Eco-Emancipation

Prof Sharon Krause, Brown University.

Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Ian Shapiro (Yale).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Procreative Justice and Genetic Selection for Non-Disease Traits: The Case of Fair Skin

Herjeet Marway (Birmingham).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 02 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Doctor’s Plot: How Philosophizing Human Rights Began

Samuel Moyn (Yale).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 09 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty

Heather Widdows (Birmingham).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Liberal Egalitarianism and the Critique of Religion

Cecile Laborde (Oxford).

Prioress's Room, Jesus College.

Friday 19 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

When the Rules Run Out: Informal Taxonomies at the Front Lines of Public Service

Bernardo Zacka (Cambridge & MIT).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 17 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Philosophical Racism

Katrin Flikschuh (LSE).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 03 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Criminal Accountability, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of States

Avia Pasternak & Jeff Howard (UCL).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Making Use of the Stilts?

Tom Shakespeare (UEA).

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Friday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

States, Corporations, Robots

David Runciman (Cambridge).

Prioress's Room, Jesus College.

Friday 03 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Institutions, Growth, and Global Justice

Chris Armstrong (Southampton).

Prioress's Room, Jesus College.

Friday 17 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Should we genetically select for the beauty feature of fair skin? Procreative Beneficence versus Procreative Justice

Herjeet Marway (Birmingham).

Prioress's Room, Jesus College.

Friday 03 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Dancer of the Future from a Socialist Point of View: Eleanor Marx, Isadora Duncan, and Choreographing Socialist Feminism

Dana Mills (NYU).

Prioress's Room, Jesus College.

Friday 20 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Doctrine of Gender Identity - A Critical Examination

Rebecca Reilly-Cooper (Warwick).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

"Cultural v. Clinical v. Cosmetic Surgery: Challenging the Distinction"

Clare Chambers (Cambridge).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 04 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Civil Disobedience and the Disaggregation of Political Authority

Robert Jubb (Reading).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 21 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Liberalism, Science, and Faith: The Case of Intelligent Design

Timothy Fowler (Bristol).

Audit Room, King's College.

Friday 07 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Art of Solidarity

Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 26 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Rhetorical Performances

Alan Finlayson (UEA).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 12 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Reparations and Historic Injustice

Catherine Lu (McGill University).

Room 138, Alison Richard Building.

Friday 29 January 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Anarchist Feminism/Anarchism and Feminism: Waves, Exclusions and Intersections

Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 15 January 2016, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Revolutionary Partisanship

Prof. Lea Ypi (LSE).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 20 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

It's Not Just the Politics that Are Missing: Realist Political Theory and the Everyday

Prof. Marc Stears (Oxford).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 06 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Forms of Differential Social Inclusion

Prof. Jonathan Wolff (UCL).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Family Values

Prof. Adam Swift (Warwick).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 09 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Moral Equality, Respect, and Cruelty

Dr Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL).

Upper Hall, Jesus College.

Friday 27 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Social Contribution Injustice

Prof. Kimberlee Brownlee (Warwick).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 13 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Liability, Proportionality, and the Number of Aggressors

Prof. Jeff McMahan (Oxford).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 30 January 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Levels of Non-Ideality

Prof. Hillel Steiner (Manchester).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 16 January 2015, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Naming Abscence: The Politics of Body Counts

Moya Lloyd (Loughborough).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 21 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Where do we Find Ourselves? Hawthorne and the Actuality of Political Space

Tracy Strong (UC San Diego).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 07 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Reading Shakespeare Politically

Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 24 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Republicanism and Global Politics: Three Requirements in Tension

Miriam Ronzoni (Manchester).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 10 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Torture, Morality, and Law

Matthew Kramer (Cambridge).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 28 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Deaths That Matter: NOTE: SEMINAR CANCELLED

Moya Lloyd (Loughborough).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 14 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Migration and Distributive Justice

Sarah Fine (KCL).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 31 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Theory Construction in Political Theory: A Philosophy-of-Science Perspective

Christian List (LSE).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 17 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Crimes Against Humanity, and Future People

Catriona McKinnon (Reading).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 22 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

How Should We Aggregate Competing Claims?

Alex Voorhoeve (LSE).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 08 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Benificence and Blackmail

Ben Colburn (Glasgow).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Moral and Institutional Desert

Jules Holroyd (Nottingham).

Coleridge Room, Jesus College.

Friday 11 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Well-Being Policy and Paternalism - CANCELLED

Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge).

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College.

Friday 01 March 2013, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Legitimate Authority in the Morality of War

Seth Lazar (ANU).

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College.

Friday 01 February 2013, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Must Criticism be Constructive?

Raymond Geuss (Cambridge).

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College.

Monday 21 January 2013, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Legitimacy in(between) Realism and Moralism

Matthew Sleat (Sheffield).

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College.

Friday 23 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Limits to Growth: An Idea Whose Time has Come Again?

Diana Coole (Birkbeck).

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College.

Friday 09 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Benefitting from the Wrongdoing of Others

Robert Goodin (Essex/ANU).

Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College.

Friday 26 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Freedom as Independence

Laura Valentini (UCL).

Room 138, Alison Richard Building.

Friday 12 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Living with the Enemy: Military Occupation

Cécile Fabre (Oxford).

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Revisiting Ruddick: Feminism, Non-violence and Pacifism

Kimberley Hutchings (LSE).

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Justifying the Special Significance of Equality of Opportunity

Martin O'Neill (York).

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 03 February 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

What is the Speech in 'Free Speech'?

Rae Langton (MIT).

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 20 January 2012, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Female Quotas, Egalitarianism, and Public Policy

Jude Browne (Cambridge).

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

On the Relationship between Principles of Justice in Schooling and Education

Philip Cook (Leicester).

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 04 November 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Egalitarian Theories of Religious Freedom

Cécile Laborde (UCL).

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 21 October 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Idea of Immanent Criticism

Gordon Finlayson (Sussex).

Seminar Room G, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

Friday 07 October 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Reality Lost, Reality Regained? Ethics, Politics and Realism in the Imagination of Raymond Geuss

David Owen, University of Southampton.

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 04 March 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Relevance of the Real World

Nic Southwood, ANU/Oxford.

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Arrogance of Politics: A Hallmark of Thinking Politically

Michael Freeden, University of Oxford.

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 04 February 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Human Rights as Constraints on States' Corporate Responsibility

Avia Pasternak, University of Essex.

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Friday 21 January 2011, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Responsibility for Refugees: A Duty to Do More Than One's Fair Share?

Zofia Stemplowska (Warwick).

Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Do we own our Bodies? More Thoughts on Property in the Person and in the Body

Anne Phillips (LSE).

Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

The Idea of Global Citizenship

David Miller (Oxford).

Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

Friday 15 October 2010, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

‘La verità effettuale della cosa’: On the Practice-Dependence of Political Values

Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL).

Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

Friday 08 October 2010, 13:00-14:30